One question about translation. When Ange calls Salamandine Salako, you translated it as Salad. Is it some kind of pun, some hidden meaning, lost to me in translation, or something else? IIRC you used straight Salako -> Salako translation before.

It’s a pun. Ange has a way of mispronouncing Salamandine’s name as something else. Salako was a pun off of anko, iirc. Ange uses it as a playful jab at her all the time. The pun is more-or-less lost in english, and Salad was the best food pun I could think of that sounded like her name.

Also, I’m pretty sure it’s always been Salad. It started at the end/preview of 17.

There was that preview when Ange made a bunch of food puns on Salamandinay’s name, but “Salako” is just shortening her name without it being a pun on anything in particular (you know, because you can just stick “ko” at the end of something and it’s suddenly a cute girl’s name). I would have translated it as “Sally” or something.

At the end of 16, Ange calls her “Salako” which makes her call Ange “Anko” in return. Sally/Angie could’ve worked but Ange then goes on to explain that she didn’t like the name because it’s also the word for red bean paste and it makes her sound sweet. Salamandine then jokingly calls her Kinako (soybean flour) instead.

To keep the food thing in tact, I changed Ange to Angus. The reason why Anko was brought up in the first place though was because Salamandine was matching Ange’s thing of adding -ko to her name. So instead of “you added -ko to my name, I’ll add it to yours,” I went with Salad/Angus for “you called me food, so now I’ll call you food.”

In hindsight, I should’ve just rewritten the entire thing and ignored the food pun altogether, but that’s the easy way out. If I do make any changes, it’ll be calling her Salami since that works a bit better.

By the way, 16:55, you could have made Hilda’s line more of a man-hating one. I’d imagine her having no problem whatsoever if it was about Ange making her do whatever she wants, so the key word in her sentence would be “otoko”? You can improve it for an eventual batch or something.